Gates Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Gates Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against busy avenues. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Gates Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and tree cover (98). Cleanliness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Gates Avenue, with 438 reports, and cleanliness ranks 12 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Gates Avenue holds 3,385 reports, and heat and hot water is 13% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 409 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 323. The file runs across 97 distinct 311 categories in all. About 96 reports per 100 homes sit on Gates Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 410 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Gates Avenue is pests, at 249 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 186 more, and bed bugs for 140. City housing records put 3,529 homes in 540 residential buildings on Gates Avenue, 229 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 23 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.5 homes each.
NYPD records 213 people injured in crashes on Gates Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Gates Avenue ranks 34 on infrastructure and 18 on quietness. An 18 on quietness places Gates Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 31 and housing at 26 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 83 and transit 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where Gates Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 3,529 homes on file, 766 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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Gates Avenue runs through Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Clinton Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).